Calculate your mission's energy requirements and fuel loadout.
| Fuel Type | Required Amount | Unit |
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The vast distances of interstellar space demand propulsion systems with incredible energy densities. This calculator explores a range of theoretical and real-world fuels, each with its own advantages and limitations:
Fueling and supplying missions across light-years presents monumental challenges:
A light-year is a unit of distance, not time. It is the distance that light travels in one Earth year, which is approximately 9.461 trillion kilometers (about 5.879 trillion miles). It's used to measure the vast distances between stars and galaxies.
Yes, antimatter is real! It's composed of antiparticles, which have the same mass as ordinary particles but opposite electric charge and other quantum numbers. When matter and antimatter meet, they annihilate each other, converting their entire mass into energy. However, producing and storing antimatter in significant quantities is currently beyond our technological capabilities.
Fictional fuels often draw inspiration from real physics but take liberties to enable faster-than-light travel or immense power output. Coaxium, for example, is depicted as a highly concentrated and volatile energy source. Warp plasma, in Star Trek, is typically a superheated, energized form of deuterium and antideuterium that powers the warp core, allowing for spacetime manipulation.